Best of Today
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Best of Today
Listen to selected highlights from the Today programme.
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I have terminal cancer but 'I'm as happy as ever’
Former aid worker Simon Boas, whose essays about his feelings towards life and death went viral, died in July aged 47.
He was told he had termin...
Best of Today: What should children learn?
The government has started a major review of the curriculum and assessment in England's schools, chaired by education policy expert Becky Francis. But...
Today Listener Series: Young people and politics
Earlier this year, the Today programme gave our listeners the chance to look at an issue that matters to them.
Herbie and Ayesha both voted for...
Today Listener Series: NHS Forensic Psychology centre in Liverpool
All this week we've been hearing stories brought to us by Today listeners.
Dr Lisa Wright and Dr Mark Walton are both clinical psychologists, w...
Today Listener Series: Is university worth it?
Earlier this year, the Today programme gave our listeners the chance to look at an issue that matters to them.
Anna and Chloe - along with Chloe...
Today Listener Series: Where's my bus?
Earlier this year we gave listeners the chance to ask us to look at an issue for them. Martin and Sandra from Macclesfield, in East Cheshire called th...
Today Listener Series: The disappearing children
All this week the Today programme is looking at stories that have been brought to us by our listeners.
Vanessa and Toby are parent governors at...
Garry Richardson's 50 years at the BBC
Garry Richardson has finished his last sports bulletin on Radio 4's Today programme - 50 years to the day since he started at the BBC.
Garry is...
Dr Clare Bailey Mosley: We want to honour Michael’s work
Radio 4 is marking Friday 12th as “Just One Thing Day” in celebration of Dr Michael Mosley’s life and legacy. Throughout the week, we’ve asked his fri...
The Today Debate: Is justice delayed, justice denied?
The Today Debate is about taking a subject and pulling it apart with more time than we have in the morning.
Amid a significant backlog in crown...
Theresa May: 'During PMQs my blood sugar went up'
When Theresa May was diagnosed with type 1 in her 50s, she told the consultant: "I'm too old. I can't be”. Lady May says she would also eat Jelly Babi...
Dame Emma Walmsley Guest Edits Today
The last of our Christmas guest editors is the CEO of the global biopharma company GSK, Dame Emma Walmsley.
She wanted her programme to look to...
Professor Jason Arday Guest Edits Today
Professor Jason Arday is our latest Christmas guest editor.
This year he was appointed as one of Cambridge’s youngest ever professors. A signif...
Andrew Malkinson Guest Edits Today
Andrew Malkinson is Today's latest Christmas guest editor. He spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit before being cleared in July.
Ellie Goulding Guest Edits Today
The singer and UN environment ambassador Ellie Goulding is the latest Today programme Christmas guest editor.
Ellie uses her programme to explo...
James May Guest Edits Today
James May, The Grand Tour and former Top Gear presenter, is Today’s latest Christmas guest editor.
He looks at the future of driverless cars an...
Hanif Kureishi Guest Edits Today
The writer Hanif Kureishi - who is our second Christmas guest editor this year - had a life changing accident which paralysed him on Boxing Day 2022....
Dr Nicola Fox Guest Edits Today
Dr Nicola Fox, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate NASA is the first of our Christmas guest editors this year.
Her progr...
'To see my mum again is an incredible thing'
The daughter of Yocheved Lifschitz, one of the hostages freed last night, has visited her mother in hospital in Israel and has told Today she "seems O...
Emma Raducanu on her return to tennis
Emma Raducanu burst onto the world stage back in 2021 when she went from being an almost unknown 18 year old tennis player to winning the US Open. She...
An experiment in "open justice" in the family courts
Judgements made in the family courts can affect families forever, including placing children in care or for adoption.
After decades of calls fo...
Michael Caine: I'm retiring from film
In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan made global headlines. He had staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach...
Why was my neighbour's body not found for two years?
Residents in a south London block of flats are considering legal action against a housing association, after their neighbour lay dead for two and a ha...
How could Sheila Seleoane remain undiscovered for so long?
Sheila Seleoane lay dead for two and a half years before her body was found - despite repeated efforts to raise the alarm. Sheila was a 58-year-old me...
How can a death go unnoticed in modern society?
Sheila Seleoane was found in her Peckham flat in February 2022 and had to be identified by dental records.
Her neighbours initially made complai...
The Today Debate: Drug deaths in Scotland - is decriminalisation the answer?
The Today Debate is about taking an issue and pulling it apart with more time than we could ever have during the morning.
Join Today presenter M...
Martha's Rule: Challenging culture will make our hospitals safer
Martha Mills was 13 years old when she died in hospital two years ago, after failures by doctors to spot and treat her sepsis.
Her parents are c...
'Life's Not Always a Beach' Guest Edit
Back in March, to mark 20 years of the Today guest editors we gave people the chance to apply in teams to make a programme with us.
Thousands of...
Sajid Javid: What can be done to help prevent suicide?
Former Health Secretary Sajid Javid lost his brother Tariq to suicide in 2018. It is the number one cause of death for young people and biggest killer...
Friendly Neighbours Guest Edit
Back in March, to mark 20 years of the Today guest editors we gave people the chance to apply in teams to make a programme with us.
Thousands of...
Concert Band Guest Edit
Back in March, to mark 20 years of the Today guest editors we gave people the chance to apply in teams to make a programme with us.
Thousands of...
The Nicola Benedetti Interview
Our programme is guest edited by Moyra, Anne, Alan and Andrew, four members of the Dunbartonshire Concert Band.
For their programme they wanted...
Good Grief Guest Edit
Back in March, to mark 20 years of the Today guest editors we gave people the chance to apply in teams to make a programme with us.
Thousands of...
Messy Fostering Guest Edit
Back in March, to mark 20 years of the Today guest editors we gave people the chance to apply in teams to make a programme with us.
Thousands...
Today Debate: Is the housing market broken?
The Today Debate is about taking a subject and pulling it apart with more time than we could ever have during the programme in the morning.
Toda...
The Today Debate: Do we need a Monarchy?
The Today Debate is about taking a subject and pulling it apart with more time than we could ever have during the Today programme in the morning.
Björn from ABBA's Eurovision highlights
Björn Ulvaeus has guest edited BBC Radio 4's Today and his programme included a lot of insights and encounters about Eurovision.
Hear him talk...
Sir Jeremy Fleming Guest Edits Today
Today's fourth Christmas guest editor this year is Sir Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, the UK's largest but probably least known intelligence agency...
Dame Sharon White Guest Edits Today
Today’s final Christmas guest editor this year is Dame Sharon White, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership and former head of telecoms regulator Ofco...
Anne-Marie Imafidon Guest Edits Today
Today’s sixth Christmas guest editor is Anne-Marie Imafidon – computer scientist, CEO and co-presenter of Countdown.
Hear highlights of her prog...